News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-07
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE.
SOME ODD THINGS FOUND IN
THE PAPERS.
Evoking the Law-The Coffee Cooler
In a Snow-bank-A Gray Eagle
Not Robbery, etc, etc.

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in Orlando, Fla, the other day, when a
butcher bird saw him and swoopad
down on him. The first peck took out
one eye, a few more the other eve. and
the blind reptile was left writhing in the
sand until citizen killed him.
JOSEPH O'BRIEN, Of Cleveland, saws
that he once examined a swallows nest,
in which were two young birds Around
the leg of, one of them horsehair had
been closely wound. Mr.. O'Brien re-
moved the hair and found that the leg
had been broken. He thinks that this
was a genuine case of bird surgery.
The man who was sentenced to 90
years in State prison Wednesday for
blowing up the Menson doctors Office
did the crime for revenge because the
doctor went out of town when his child
was sick, and he claimed that if the doc
tor had ''staid at home and attended to
business" the child would have lived.
WHEN farmer of Washington county,
Ill, the other day went into a smoke
house which had not been opened for
six months, he was surprised to find
about fifteen bushels of wheat piled in
one corner. It had been brought there
by rats from the bin of a neighboring
farmer, whose wheat was fifteen bushels
short.
LITTLE Belle McNichol, of st. Louis,
playing with her pet Scotch terrier, ac-
cidentally locked herself in a small and
nearly air tight closet. The dog at once
ran down stairs, and 10y his actions in
duced servant to follow him to the
closet, where she found the child I'M
conscious. Belle would have died in q
few minutes more but for the terrier.
HAY pressers near Troy found in the
middle of big hay NOV hen that
must have been there since the hay was
| put in the barn last summer. She had
made room to stand up and turn around
in, and had laid eighteen eggs; but the
poor thing didn't know enough to eat
them, and was so nearly starved to death
that she died soon after being released
In the United States there are 9, 269
breweries, which produce annually $780,
! S32, 400 gallons, of beer or seven gallons
| per head. In Germany there are %, $40
breweries, which produce annually 800
| 100000 gallons, or over twenty gallons
per head. In Great Britain there are
26,214 breweries, which produce an
nually 1,050,0O0 gallons, or over thirty
per head.
A CLERK in Louisville invested $50 in
pork at bucket shop the other day and
succeeded in running it up to $4,000.
Then he determined to make it $4,000
and quit and get married. His $1,000
crept up to almost the desired amount,
and then the market took a turn against
him, and in few hours he didn't have
even the original $50. He will not mar
ry this spring.
A PARTY of three hunters who were
out after deer in Tehama county, Cal,
short time ago, found while following
trail that they were in turn being fol-
lowed by gang of six or seven noun
tain lions. They quickly beat a retreat
but the lions followed until they had
nearly reached home, sometimes coming
within rod or two of the party, but re-
treating at a shot.
THREE small boys went to an aban-
doned lumber camp on Coon Creek, Wis,
the other day and found bottle which
they thought contained whiskey. They
drank the contents and started for home
One of the boys dropped dead on the
way; another fell exhausted, and the
third managed to struggle on and give
the alarm. The two survivors were
saved with difficulty. The bottle con-
tanned aconite.
A BUFFALO philosopher says that he
can invariably tell newly married man
when travelling by Watching him give
his wife a drink of water on the train
If, after she takes her little sip he swat
lows what remains in the glass with
great relish, then he's recent captive.
If he has been married long he will
pour out the water and get fresh sup
ply for himself.
A sIX-YEAR-oLD boy in Gait, Canada,
became an expert cigarette maker and
smoker, and uses any paper which comes
to hand in which to roll his tobacco.
The other evening he went into his
mothers room in the dark, and picking
up piece of paper from the bureau
rolled cigarette, and had burned two
thirds of it before it was discovered that
he was smoking a SO bill
A ST. PAUL merchant, after employ
ing a Waterman for his store for several
years, had iron doors and shutters
placed on the building and then dis
charged the Waterman. That very night
burglars broke in and stole much prop |
erty and were never captured. The ex-
Waterman said that he despised a thief
on general principles, but he did have
sort of feeling for these particular burg
lars.
A BIG eagle swooped down into the
yard of Farmer Richards of Scott county, |
Ind, the other day and attempted to |
carry Oft a three-year-old child He
was frightened away, but soon returned, |
and this time tackled a young lamb. |
Mrs Richards, who knows how to shoot, |
was waiting fo1 the proud bird of free
dom, and, as he rose with the lamb, fired |
and killed him. He measured thirteen
feet from tip to tip.
ADVANCE AGENTS of theatrical COM
pnnies have to be cautious how they bill |
Michigan towns. The law of the State
is very particular as to the kind of pic |
lures displayed, and reads: Ono sign, |
picture, painting, or other representa-
ton of murker, assassination, stabbing, |
fighting, or any personal violence, or of |
the commission of any crime, shall be
posted, under penalty OF fine or imprison-
ment. Even the picture of Virginius
In the forum is forbidden.
GEORGE w. MoNIsTY was slave, and
was sold from his parents in 1858, being .
taken to Mississippi. He subsequently, |
served as a Union soldier all through the
war, and finally settled at Lafayette,
Ind. While at the Wabash Station re-
Gently George fancied he recognized two
cOlOred women who were passing en-
route to Iowa. The recognition was
mutual, and with tears, cries of Joy, and .
embraces, the mother, brother, and
sister came together after separation
of 80 years.
JACOB GRoNINGER, ST., of Milford
township, Pa, 81 years old, and still in
vigorous health, has goodly line of
descendants. OF his children, Is are
living and 1 is dead of his grandchil-
dren, sc are living and % are dead of
his great-grandchildren 60 are living
and 5 dead and there have been born
to him two great great- grandchildren but
both are dead. Out of 1872 descendants lO2
are living. The patriarch lives on the
farm where he was born and where he
has always lived.
ONE SCHOOL, says a Boston paper. at
tracted our attention in one primary
room. Each of the fifty pupils has a
number, and every time a pupil distin-
cuisines himself by specially good work
his number is added to those already
used in building the words "good work"
The effect upon the board is fine. The
letters are about a foot deep, and large
number of figures are used in making
them The intnract tho lttlo FCll- 49,